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Josh Apte

@joshapte.bsky.social

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Professor of Environmental Engineering + Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley. Research: air pollution, health, climate, EJ.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 07/05/2025

Shutting down the Energy Star program will raise your energy costs and make you sicker. There is no good policy reason to shut it down. None. It saves people lots of money and helps cut pollution. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

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E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Global science is not going to end at the whims of some ideology. More than 17,000 Earth and space scientists are gathering at #EGU25, including many from the U.S. www.egu25.eu

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Josh Apte @joshapte.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I took advantage of the spring weather to sneak in a little hike in the Viennese Alps this morning before the start of #EGU25. Awesome to see this old smokestack being repurposed for solar energy. A nice metaphor for the change we need!

An old brick building with a smokestack. The smokestack is now covered with PV panels.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

NIH-supported Environmental Health Perspectives is the open-access flagship journal in environmental health. They have paused all new manuscript submissions "due to changes in operational resources". Is this the transparency and open discourse we were promised? ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/b...

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EHP Publishing

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Josh Apte @joshapte.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Most rail services in the US still use polluting diesel locomotives. Recently, our commuter rail system in San Francisco, @caltrain.com, was electrified. Good news: we found DRAMATIC air quality improvements once the electric trains replaced the diesels. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Dramatic Air Quality Improvements after the Complete Electrification of a Commuter Rail System

To limit the impact of climate change, there is an urgent requirement for infrastructure decarbonization and a transition to lower-emission energy systems. This is expected to result in local air qual...

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Josh Apte @joshapte.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hey everyone, nice to be back online here at Bluesky. I love how fresh and earnest this place feels - reminds me of the good old days.

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